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* Say policy makers should take into account that China has a history of violence
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: Indias top experts on Chinese affairs have accused New Delhi of lacking the spine to check Chinese influence in the region.
Deliberating during a two-day seminar organised by the think-tank Observer Research Foundation (RRF), strategists blamed poor implementation and delivery of policies to contain Beijings growing influence in the region and even cautioned the Indian government against taking Chinas claim of a peaceful rise on face value.
Going through Chinas track record, Dr Brahma Chellaney noted that the peoples republic began its international debut through wars, even when it was weak and poor in the 1940s and 1950s.
Inaugurating the seminar Dr Chellaney said, What did they (China) do even when they were poor and weak? They annexed Xinjiang in 1949, occupied Tibet in 1950-51, invaded South Korea in 1950, attacked India in 1962 and took on the Soviet Union in border conflict in 1969 and invaded Vietnam in 1979.
I dont want to comment on whether the rising China will be benign or whether it will pose a security threats. There is lots of debate going on over this. But the policy-makers should look at its track record, he said.
Dr Chellaney said he was not proposing containing China, but creating the necessary checks and balances so that the might of China is forced to balance itself. And China remains on the positive side of the ledger, and not on the debit side, he said.
He noted that military muscle was a must before amassing wealth, and not even a single country in the world had done it the other way round.
Dr Chellaney said while China steadily pursued its military policy in the 1950s and developed thermo-nuclear capacity and ICBMs in 1978, India does not have an ICBM even on paper.
He added India was the only large country in the world that was dependent on imports for its defence needs whether it is rifles, tanks, aircraft or any other ammunition.
He was also apprehensive of New Delhi celebrating India-China relations. Reality is always two sided. To me, this means 60 years of China becoming our neighbour by annexing Tibet. Why should we celebrate this? But for the government of India it is time for celebration, he said.
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By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: Indias top experts on Chinese affairs have accused New Delhi of lacking the spine to check Chinese influence in the region.
Deliberating during a two-day seminar organised by the think-tank Observer Research Foundation (RRF), strategists blamed poor implementation and delivery of policies to contain Beijings growing influence in the region and even cautioned the Indian government against taking Chinas claim of a peaceful rise on face value.
Going through Chinas track record, Dr Brahma Chellaney noted that the peoples republic began its international debut through wars, even when it was weak and poor in the 1940s and 1950s.
Inaugurating the seminar Dr Chellaney said, What did they (China) do even when they were poor and weak? They annexed Xinjiang in 1949, occupied Tibet in 1950-51, invaded South Korea in 1950, attacked India in 1962 and took on the Soviet Union in border conflict in 1969 and invaded Vietnam in 1979.
I dont want to comment on whether the rising China will be benign or whether it will pose a security threats. There is lots of debate going on over this. But the policy-makers should look at its track record, he said.
Dr Chellaney said he was not proposing containing China, but creating the necessary checks and balances so that the might of China is forced to balance itself. And China remains on the positive side of the ledger, and not on the debit side, he said.
He noted that military muscle was a must before amassing wealth, and not even a single country in the world had done it the other way round.
Dr Chellaney said while China steadily pursued its military policy in the 1950s and developed thermo-nuclear capacity and ICBMs in 1978, India does not have an ICBM even on paper.
He added India was the only large country in the world that was dependent on imports for its defence needs whether it is rifles, tanks, aircraft or any other ammunition.
He was also apprehensive of New Delhi celebrating India-China relations. Reality is always two sided. To me, this means 60 years of China becoming our neighbour by annexing Tibet. Why should we celebrate this? But for the government of India it is time for celebration, he said.
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